The Bridewell With Forecourt and Garden Walls
THE BRIDEWELL WITH FORECOURT AND GARDEN WALLS, BRIDEWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213069
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Bridewell With Forecourt and Garden Walls
- Statutory Address:
- THE BRIDEWELL WITH FORECOURT AND GARDEN WALLS, BRIDEWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213069
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Bridewell With Forecourt and Garden Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BRIDEWELL WITH FORECOURT AND GARDEN WALLS, BRIDEWELL LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE BRIDEWELL WITH FORECOURT AND GARDEN WALLS, BRIDEWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Botesdale
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 04998 75662
Details
BOTESDALE BRIDEWELL LANE (NORTH TM 07 NE and TM 0475 EAST SIDE) 2/1 and 6/1 The Bridewell with 29.7.55 Forecourt and Garden Walls (formerly listed as Bridewell House) - II House, former Bridewell. c.1810, altered C19 and C20. Red brick. Hipped machine tiled roof. 3 bays. 2 storeys. Central entrance with steps up to a part raised and part glazed fielded panelled door, architrave with blocked semi-circular fanlight, later hipped open porch on octagonal timber uprights. Glazing bar sashes in shallow reveals, gauged brick flat arched heads, timber sills; first floor outer 16 pane sashes. Offset plinth, dentilled brick eaves. Returns have extruded axial stacks with double offsets, mixed casements and sashes with cambered heads. To rear an extruded kitchen stack in a continuous pantiled flint and brick lean-to outshut. Interior: mid C19 staircase with slat balusters, moulded and ramped handrail. Attached to rear lean-to at sides are rebuilt outshuts linking to original walls of 3 to 4 metres in height with rounded coping, offset plinth, some pilaster strips. The walls enclose a garden to rear of about 25 metres square and continue forward about 25m to sides of forecourt. At front small ramps up to piers with ball finials, iron railings on low quadrant spur walls further forward.
Listing NGR: TM0499875662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280722
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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